Predictive Evidence in Criminal Trials
| Autor: | Amit Pundik |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Italian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Quaestio Facti, Iss 6 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2660-4515 2604-6202 |
| DOI: | 10.33115/udg_bib/qf.i6.22895 |
| Popis: | In previous works, I have sought to explain and justify the hostility of criminal proceedings toward statistical evidence by suggesting that criminal fact-finding implicitly adheres to the view that culpable conduct requires free will that is necessarily unpredictable. In this paper, I argue that Criminal Law should treat people based on the assumption that they have unpredictable free will, even if this assumption is unfounded or even false. I first show how the use of predictive evidence undermines the effectiveness of stigmatisation, based in part on the phenomenon of ‘bypassing’. I then claim that my justification has a considerable advantage over the popular incentive-based justification. |
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